In this lecture, “Black Flags: the Rise of ISIS”, award-winning Washington Post journalist Joby Warrick describes the rise of ISIS through the story of the man who started the movement, Abu Musab al Zarqawi.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
In this talk, “From Digital Spaces to Real World Change: How Digital Storytelling Can Affect Social and Environmental Justice”, Julia Walsh speaks about how she has utilized digital campaigns, tools, and strategies to argue for a more sustainable and just world.… →
In this lecture, Nobel Laureate W.E. Moerner discusses his groundbreaking work on imaging single molecules and the remarkable impact it has had on modern research and medicine.… →
Professor Beth Haller of Towson University discusses Helen Keller’s 21st century renaissance as both an iconic deaf-blind celebrity and a significant progressive thinker of the 20th century.… →
In this lecture, Faye Ginsburg discusses “the Indigenous uncanny” as a way to understand some recent “hyperreal” works by two well-known Australian Indigenous artists… →
Panelists include Dr. Jacqueline Tanaka, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Temple’s MARC U*STAR program, which aims to diversify biomedical research by recruiting and mentoring students from groups underrepresented in the field; and Dr.… →
In this lecture, titled, “Researching the Recent Past: the Enduring Significance of 1995,” W.… →
Fabienne Darling-Wolf presents the translocal approach—a theoretical and methodological endeavor focused on the concrete conditions under which various local/national environments relate to each other… →
Laura Levitt focuses on Jewish memory and some of the ways Jews imagine what justice might entail by discussing what should be done with objects held in Holocaust collections and how to do justice to especially traumatic and violent pasts.… →
